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Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 16:52:15 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 next 0/3] modules: automatic module
loading restrictions
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> I think that having the un-resettable mode is unnecessary. We should
> have option that disables loading modules entirely and cannot be
> unset. (That means no explicit loads and not implicit loads.) Maybe
> we already have this. Otherwise, tightening caps needed for implicit
> loads should just be a normal yes/no setting IMO.
Yup, /proc/sys/kernel/modules_disabled already does this.
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Kees Cook
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